"The angel of St. Valentin, a memoi"
http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn723220-irn501482 an entity of type: Record
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nathan Gutman (b.1927 ) was born to a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland. During the Holocaust he was interned in the Krakow-Plaszow, Mauthausen and St. Valentin camps. After World War II he immigrated to Israel where he volunteered for the Israeli Navy. In 1963 he came to the United States to pursue a Mechanical Engineering degree at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
irn501482
"The angel of St. Valentin, a memoi"
folder
1
Consists of one brief memoir entitled"The Angel of St. Valentin" by Nathan Gutman. In the memoir, Mr. Gutman describes his experiences at St. Valentin, a slave labor satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. The camps inmates were forced to work twelve hour shifts at a factory which was part of the Hermann Goering Werke. The story describes Mr. Gutman's secret connection with an Austrian civilian tool setter at that factory.